Discussion Board - Potato Yields

Just curious, what is a good yield, in bushels, from a 40-foot row of potatos? I think I planted 10 pounds of Yukon gold. Some hills had two or three big spuds; others 6-10 smaller--not marble size, just smaller potatoes. Is it like fish in a pond where you can have one ten-pound fish or 10 one-pound fish given the same nutrients, etc. Tops had all died down so I figure they were done growing.

I did tests with many varieties.Got 10 lb per pound of seed planted.Red Gold did make 18 to 1 but lots of small potatoes.Planted Yukon Gold once , poor yeild.I grow mostly Kennebecs and Red Norland now.Some Satina and Red Gold because my wife and daughter like them.

the "set" (number of tubers formed per plant) depends on the variety, possibly other factors as well. The size of the tubers depends on many things including the plant population. So if you had 2 rows side by side with everything identical except population, the higher pop should have smaller tubers.

for reference, commercial potato production is usually either 34 or 36 inch rows and a typical yield is 350-450 hundredweight per acre

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